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Is explicit inhibition of authentication supported now?
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XeCycle
May 10, 2013, 11:30:00 AM5/10/13
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Hi,
Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
`force' for the server. But it causes inconvenience when my
authinfo file is encrypted.
So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
authentication information for a specific server? If not, I'm
seriously requesting this feature. I do have some sort of GPG
agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
--
Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
OpenPGP public key: 7795E591
Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591
Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
`force' for the server. But it causes inconvenience when my
authinfo file is encrypted.
So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
authentication information for a specific server? If not, I'm
seriously requesting this feature. I do have some sort of GPG
agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
--
Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
OpenPGP public key: 7795E591
Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591
Ted Zlatanov
Jun 10, 2013, 12:14:41 AM6/10/13
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:00 +0800 XeCycle <XeC...@Gmail.com> wrote:
X> Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
X> authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
X> `force' for the server. But it causes inconvenience when my
X> authinfo file is encrypted.
X> So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
X> authentication information for a specific server? If not, I'm
X> seriously requesting this feature. I do have some sort of GPG
X> agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
Hi Carl,
see the attached patch. I am not sure if the parameter will be called
`nntp-auth' but please try applying the patch once and see if the logic
is correct. Let me know if you're not sure how to use this.
Thanks
Ted
X> Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
X> authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
X> `force' for the server. But it causes inconvenience when my
X> authinfo file is encrypted.
X> So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
X> authentication information for a specific server? If not, I'm
X> seriously requesting this feature. I do have some sort of GPG
X> agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
Hi Carl,
see the attached patch. I am not sure if the parameter will be called
`nntp-auth' but please try applying the patch once and see if the logic
is correct. Let me know if you're not sure how to use this.
Thanks
Ted
Ted Zlatanov
Jun 28, 2013, 12:20:58 PM6/28/13
to XeCycle
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:14:41 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
TZ> On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:00 +0800 XeCycle <XeC...@Gmail.com> wrote:
X> Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
X> authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
X> `force' for the server. But it causes inconvenience when my
X> authinfo file is encrypted.
X> So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
X> authentication information for a specific server? If not, I'm
X> seriously requesting this feature. I do have some sort of GPG
X> agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
TZ> see the attached patch. I am not sure if the parameter will be called
TZ> `nntp-auth' but please try applying the patch once and see if the logic
TZ> is correct. Let me know if you're not sure how to use this.
ping?
Ted
TZ> On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:00 +0800 XeCycle <XeC...@Gmail.com> wrote:
X> Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
X> authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
X> `force' for the server. But it causes inconvenience when my
X> authinfo file is encrypted.
X> So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
X> authentication information for a specific server? If not, I'm
X> seriously requesting this feature. I do have some sort of GPG
X> agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
TZ> `nntp-auth' but please try applying the patch once and see if the logic
TZ> is correct. Let me know if you're not sure how to use this.
ping?
Ted
XeCycle
Jun 28, 2013, 10:09:31 PM6/28/13
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leafnode was down for some time unnoticed --- I'm reading through
gmane.
I'm looking into it.
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Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU
OpenPGP public key: 7795E591
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